Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health /

"Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cisterci...

Cijeli opis

Spremljeno u:
Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Ritchey, Sara Margaret (Autor)
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Teme:
Online pristup:Full text available:
Oznake: Dodaj oznaku
Bez oznaka, Budi prvi tko označuje ovaj zapis!
Sadržaj:
  • Translating care: the circulation of healing stories
  • Bedside comforts: the social organization of care
  • Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority
  • Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities
  • Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.